History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland
Elizabeth Boyle, History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland (Routledge, 2021), uncorrected proofs.
Author Archives: Elizabeth Boyle
‘The Twelfth-Century English Transmission of a Poem on the Threefold Division of the Mind, Attributed to Patrick of Dublin (d. 1084)’
‘The Twelfth-Century English Transmission of a Poem on the Threefold Division of the Mind, Attributed to Patrick of Dublin (d. 1084)’, in ‘A fantastic and abstruse Latinity’? Hiberno-Continental Cultural and Literary Interactions in the MiddleAges, ed. Wolfram R. Keller & Dagmar Schlüter, Studien und Texte zur Keltologie (Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2017), pp. 102-16
Aspects of Philosophical Discourse in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Ireland: Metaphor, Morality and the Mind
‘Aspects of Philosophical Discourse in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Ireland: Metaphor, Morality and the Mind’, in Philosophy in Ireland: Past Actualities and Present Challenges, ed. Susan Gottlöber (Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, 2019), pp. 2-26
Eschatology and Reform in Early Irish Law: the Evidence of Sunday Legislation
Uncorrected proofs of ‘Eschatology and Reform in Early Irish Law: the Evidence of Sunday Legislation’, in Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, ed. Matthew Gabriele and James T. Palmer (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), pp. 121-38
Allegory, the áes dána and the Liberal Arts in Medieval Irish Literature
‘Allegory, the áes dána and the Liberal Arts in Medieval Irish Literature’, in Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg: Vernacular Grammar and Grammarians in Medieval Ireland and Wales, ed. Deborah Hayden and Paul Russell (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016), pp. 11-34 The present study briefly considers the vernacular terminology used to describe figurative language in medieval Irish literature, and […]
Senchas Gall Átha Clíath: Aspects of the Cult of St Patrick in the Twelfth Century
(co-authored with Liam Breatnach), ‘Senchas Gall Átha Clíath: Aspects of the Cult of St Patrick in the Twelfth Century’, in Sacred Histories: A Festschrift for Máire Herbert, ed. J. Carey, K. Murray & C. Ó Dochartaigh (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015), pp. 22-55 This Festschrift contribution comprises the first edition, translation and detailed discussion of Senchas […]
The Rhetoric and Reality of Reform in Irish Eschatological Thought, c. 1000 – 1150
‘The Rhetoric and Reality of Reform in Irish Eschatological Thought, c. 1000 – 1150’, History of Religions 55:3 (2016), 269-88 This essay challenges the ideas that the ‘great fear’ recorded in Irish annals for the year 1096 was the culmination of an escalating rhetoric of apocalypticism, and that it was a trigger for the ecclesiastical reform […]
The Impiety of the Intellect: Whitley Stokes and the Pre-Raphaelites
‘The Impiety of the Intellect: Whitley Stokes and the Pre-Raphaelites’, in The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830-1909), ed. Elizabeth Boyle and Paul Russell (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011), pp. 44-58 Discusses Whitley Stokes’ involvement with the Pre-Raphaelite movement in London, 1852-62, focusing particularly on his influence on Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Allingham and F. […]
De tribus habitaculis animae: Concerning the Three Dwelling-Places of the Soul
English translation of the Latin treatise De tribus habitaculis animae. (Note that the PDF published here is of the pre-publication proofs.) De_tribus_habitaculis_animae_Concerning
On the Wonders of Ireland: Translation and Adaptation
‘On the Wonders of Ireland: Translation and Adaptation’, in Authorities and Adaptations: the Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Ireland, ed. Elizabeth Boyle & Deborah Hayden (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2014), pp. 233-61 Taking the Latin poem De mirabilibus Hiberniae as its starting point, this essay examines the translation, reworking and transmission […]